S.A.’s ‘Under the Dome’ finale party: Meet one of the stars!

For so many viewers, in San Antonio and around the globe, there was no place like “Dome” — at least during the dry TV time of summer.

Now, the most popular show of the hot months is coming to a close, for a while at least. The finale airs at 9 p.m. Monday on CBS (KENS-TV). The good news is San Antonio can bid farewell to Season One of the Stephen King series in style: at a local viewing party tonight complete with a star of the television chiller. The festivities start at 8 p.m. in Lion & Rose at The Forum (8211 Agora Pkwy #112,
Live Oak).

John Elvis, a San Antonio actor who’s a marvel on a skateboard and does a great job playing one of the main kids in “Under the Dome,” will be there watching with you.

Elvis, 21, plays 16-year-old skate rat Ben, the shaggy-haired friend of central teen Joe (Colin Ford). When he’s not giving his all to the role, he works at Calliope Talent agency here and practices his elaborate skate moves in Ladybird Johnson Park. Read more about the actor here.

Ben is one of the good guys, doing his best to help a group of special young people uncover the truth about the huge dome, which, seemingly out of nowhere, came down from the sky to imprison the small Maine town of Chester’s Mill. After the residents were trapped inside and sealed off from the rest of the world, all hell started breaking loose, causing the townsfolk to lash out at each other as they sought both survival and revenge.

I’m told Elvis has a juicy scene or two coming up in the finale. During last week’s penultimate episode, he was put in charge of hiding the mysterious, electricity-charged egg – a kind of mini-dome — that the power-drunk Big Jim Rennie (Dean Norris) is so hell-bent on finding and destroying.

Ben nearly was driven nuts last week when the magical egg started filling with orange stars and blasting ear-shattering sounds as if it weren’t at all pleased about what was going down in the town of Chester’s Mill.

For one thing, Big Jim has pinned all the murders and various crimes he has committed on the town’s hero, Dale “Barbie” Barbara, hoping the whipped-up town will exact vengeance in the form of a public execution.

I myself can’t wait to see what happens. If you’d like some fun company while watching, get thee to the viewing party — see details in invitation above. Hey, I understand TV cameras will be there to capture the festivities, so you may land on that night’s 10 p.m. news.